Generosity Quotes · Page 41

Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.

— Anthony of Padua

“Begin asking how you may be of service and you will soon discover that the true gift is in your giving.”

— Susan C. Young

“We can protect life, practice generosity, behave responsibly, and consume mindfully.”

— Barbara Ann Kipfer

It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.

— Jasmine Guinness

I don't think there's a public in the world who respond like the British to a call for charity.

— Terry Wogan

I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.

— Bethenny Frankel

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.

— Hosea Ballou

When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.

— Hamza Yusuf

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

— Mark Twain

I invest in black-led startups not because of a sense of charity. I make those investments because of the basic principle of…

— Troy Carter

There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence…

— Jacques Rigaut

Throughout history people with disabilities have been institutionalized and segregated, which tends to make you think that it's a group in need…

— Jay Ruderman

What I found in my research on Trump's charitable giving was that often he would promise something and then never deliver, but…

— David Fahrenthold

“Helping is not, as conventionally thought, a charitable act that is praiseworthy to do but not wrong to omit. It is something…

— Peter Singer

I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

One hand of help, one word of sympathy, one act of Humanity, one smile of charity, one message a day can change…

— Nyange Jally

“Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and…

— Scotty Smith

To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried…

— Charles Dickens

Do not give alms promiscuously. Select the unworthy poor and make them happy. To give to the deserving is a duty, but…

— George Ade

Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is…

— Jack Kornfield

Charity is not a virtue to expect in others only. It is the all-important Christian attribute to be found in ourselves. .…

— Henry D. Moyle

Tolerance is a form of generosity and it is a form of wisdom. There is nothing anywhere in the Dharma [Buddhist scriptures]…

— Hsing Yun

READILY and, I trust, feelingly acknowledge the duty incumbent on us all . . . to provide for those who, in the…

— Franklin Pierce

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

— Winston Churchill

Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community.

— Ross Perot

The altruism of foresters can serve as a motto for humanity in general: "We reap what we have not sown. We sow…

— Leo Errera

Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.

— Mother Teresa

I donate lots to charity. I don't necessarily tell everybody the number or what I do.

— Lindsay Davenport

“Charity can be a good thing. But the only cause I’ll support is because. Don’t ask me why.”

— Jarod Kintz

In the charitable world, I find myself giving to large projects that I think can make a large-scale impact.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

“I beg you, help me, in angelic charity, Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery!”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

The Muslim Prophet Mohammed was a big believer in charity and firmly established helping those in need as a basis of the…

— Richard Engel

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

— Hosea Ballou

Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue

— Paulo Coelho

I know the good, and optimistic, and big-hearted generosity of the American people.

— Barack Obama

In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.

— Thucydides

“Hearts who struggled worst never gives up on possibilities when finding solutions reaching out for others' loss & despair.”

— Angelica Hopes

Celebrate...the tradition of giving, the beauty of the season and a New Year of peace and happiness.

— Anonymous

To build authentic relationships you need to lead with generosity & serve them first

— Keith Ferrazzi